Five major media outlets in Canada have jointly sued OpenAI, accusing it of illegally scraping news content to train its AI models

ChainCatcher news, according to IT Home, five major media outlets including the Canadian Press, CBC, Torstar, Postmedia, and the Globe and Mail have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Ontario Superior Court, accusing it of extensively scraping their copyrighted content for training AI models like ChatGPT without permission and compensation. The lawsuit document spans 84 pages, demanding OpenAI to compensate for damages and to permanently prohibit unauthorized use of their content. OpenAI responded that its model training is based on publicly available data, adheres to fair use principles, and provides publishers with content attribution and opt-out options.